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Describe Derailed for Details here.--OK. A character is trying to...What's his name? --Uh, Bob. Bob is trying to tell a story...Which story?--It doesn't matter! Shut up and let me finish! Ahem. Bob is trying to tell a story or joke, or ask a hypothetical or rhetorical question. He's interrupted constantly by requests for unnecessary extraneous details, quickly derailing the story into a Shaggy Dog Story or a Metaphorgotten. Common culprits are the Constantly Curious, the missing-the-point Cloudcuckoolander or the Mouthy Kid who's just trying to get on his nerves. Alternatively a self-conscious joke teller might do this to himself, adding unnecessary detail or going back and changing things.

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  • Describe Derailed for Details here.--OK. A character is trying to...What's his name? --Uh, Bob. Bob is trying to tell a story...Which story?--It doesn't matter! Shut up and let me finish! Ahem. Bob is trying to tell a story or joke, or ask a hypothetical or rhetorical question. He's interrupted constantly by requests for unnecessary extraneous details, quickly derailing the story into a Shaggy Dog Story or a Metaphorgotten. Common culprits are the Constantly Curious, the missing-the-point Cloudcuckoolander or the Mouthy Kid who's just trying to get on his nerves. Alternatively a self-conscious joke teller might do this to himself, adding unnecessary detail or going back and changing things.
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  • Describe Derailed for Details here.--OK. A character is trying to...What's his name? --Uh, Bob. Bob is trying to tell a story...Which story?--It doesn't matter! Shut up and let me finish! Ahem. Bob is trying to tell a story or joke, or ask a hypothetical or rhetorical question. He's interrupted constantly by requests for unnecessary extraneous details, quickly derailing the story into a Shaggy Dog Story or a Metaphorgotten. Common culprits are the Constantly Curious, the missing-the-point Cloudcuckoolander or the Mouthy Kid who's just trying to get on his nerves. Alternatively a self-conscious joke teller might do this to himself, adding unnecessary detail or going back and changing things. AKA The Trope Where A Guy Starts Telling A Story Wait It Doesn't Have To Be A Guy Or A Story Either Really It Could Be A Joke Or A Speech But Anyway Where Was I... Compare Derailed Fairy Tale, where the listener insists on adding his own details in; Disorganized Outline Speech, where the speaker doesn't really know what point he's trying to make in the first place, and Metaphorgotten, where unnecessary deviation sends an analogy off track. Examples of Derailed for Details include:
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